Laura Kurella is an award-winning, self-syndicated food columnist, an award-winning Food Stylist, and the author of two cookbooks: Fabulous Desserts and Fabulous Tiny Bites and beverage. Her column, Vitality Cuisine, appears each Tuesday in the
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Laura Kurella is an award-winning, self-syndicated food columnist, an award-winning Food Stylist, and the author of two cookbooks: Fabulous Desserts and Fabulous Tiny Bites and beverage. Her column, Vitality Cuisine, appears each Tuesday in the Sturgis Journal, and her Radio Recipe show can be heard Tuesday mornings at 7:15 am at WBETFM.com Questions or comments? Contact Laura at Laurakurella@yahoo.com.

QUIP: I don’t think there’s anything more frustrating than when food won’t stay together when trying to flip it over.

Even the most careful can run into this problem, especially when food is much larger than your spatula, like in a super stuffed quesadilla.

It never fails, no matter how cautious you are, the moment you go to flip it, the ingredients shift or slip, landing catawampus all over the pan or worse, all over the stove -don’t ask me how I know this!

TIP: There is a super easy tool to make flipping anything easier and, it’s a one every single kitchen in America already owns - dishes!

Yes, with just two dishes you can flip anything without disturbing its inner contents.

To do so, simply cover the pan you are cooking in with a dish that is slightly larger than the circumference of the pan.

With a potholder in each hand, press the dish firmly over the top of the pan then quickly invert the pan so that food that was in the pan is now resting on the dish.

Remove pan then place the second dish over the food. Grasp with both hands to clamp plate to plate then quickly invert so that the side that still needs to be cooked is now face-up.

With potholders in both hands, place and press pan over dish then quickly invert one last time then remove plate.

Your food will now be back in the pan with the cooked side face-up so, you can finish cooking!

While this method does leave you with two dishes to wash, it does afford you food that is perfectly flipped – every time!